TONGUE TICKLING LEMON PICKLE Type 2

Ingredients:

Lemon fruits 10 nos

Red chilly Powder 4 tablespoons 

Roasted fenugreek seed powder half teaspoon

Asafoetida Powder one pinch

Urad dal one tablespoon

Moong dal one tablespoon

Bengal gram one tablespoon

Fennel seeds one spoon

FreshCurry leaves one cup

Split urad dal one spoon for tempering

Mustard seeds one spoon

Sesame oil 250 ml

Rock salt powdered 200 gms

Procedure:

Wash the lemon fruits and wipe the fruits with clean cloth.

Allow to dry.

Cut the lemon fruits into eight parts each longitudinally to restore the juice in the pieces itself.

Please take care .

In a dry bottle or jar, put the lemon parts and coarse powdered rock salt.

Cover with the dry white cloth and place the bottle or jar in sunlight whole day.

Shake the bottle or stir the soaked lemons with the help of dry spoon three times per day.

Repeat the process for three days.

Dry roast the dals i.e., urad dal, Bengal dal and moong  dal and fennel seeds separately.

Grind the dals and fennel seeds into a coarse powder and keep aside.
Mix the asafoetida, fenugreek powder and red chilly fine  powder with one cup of water and keep aside.

Heat the dry wok and add sesame oil.

Let the flame be in medium.

Add mustard seeds to crackle.

Switch  off the flame to avoid burning due to over heat.

Add curry leaves, and one spoon turmeric.

Pour the mixture of red chilly powder, asafoetida and fenugreek powder

Saute for a while and Switch on the flame.

Transfer all the lemon parts along with salt water.

Now add the coarse mixture of dals.

Mix well to incorporate all the ingredients evenly.

Allow to boil and cook until the sesame oil oozes out along the sides of the wok.

Switch off the flame.

Allow to cool and transfer the pickles into a dry jar or bottle.

Place cooked pickles in the sunlight for three days again.

Stir gently three times per day.

Now the lemon pickle is ready to relish with curd rice , arisiyum paruppum saatham/Dal rice

Use the dry spoon always to restore its freshness and quality.

It can be stored for more than three months.

We can refrigerate the lemon pickle for six months